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Sixty points in two hours and rank 500? I guess someone doesn't like the title?

• bryanlarsen 7y ago
  HN readers quickly flag stories that are political or tend to produce heated discussions. Climate change stories are both, yet for a brief time there were 3 of them on the front page. Strong evidence that climate change actually is important to HN readers.
  • SiempreViernes 7y ago
    Likewise the flagging is strong evidence that plenty of high karma users object to taking it very seriously. It's not like stories about blocking online ads get flagged down very often, despite generating a lot of controversy too.
    • bryanlarsen 7y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20551615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20551615 has been on front for 10 hours, yet has # comments exceeding # points, which usually buries a story quick.